FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 424. 1899. 1103 For purchase and erection of one-hundred-ton Emory testing machine, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand dollars. Rnrams OF Ansniurs: For repairs and improvements at arsenals, R·>1>¤ir¤<>f =¤r¤¤¤¤·1¤- and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contin gencies during the year may render necessary, sixty thousand dollars. BUILDINGS AND G1zoUNDs IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON. we¤nmgm¤,D.c. For the improvement and care of public grounds, as follows: Buildings Mid For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive gr}),`;,’,§°;,€;,,,,,,.,,,, and Mansion, four thousand dollars. ¤¤i¤· For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery,two thousand dollars. · For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. d lilor improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand o lars. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds, three thousand dollars. · . For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and R¤¤¤"¤*i·>¤ N0- 11 site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: Provided, 5*0**3, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property mm I um belonging to the United States. ‘ ” For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, ilower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; and abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, fifteen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty thousand dollars. ' For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the completion of the concrete or asphalt pavement of E street northwest through said park, from Fourth street to Fifth street northwest, two thousand dollars. For paving roadway on east and south sides of State, War. and Navy building, fourteen thousand three hundred dollars. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. That under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made m¥;;·:_?mi;~·i ¤<>¤<·¤¢¤ for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington I ` City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds Executive M¤¤¤i¤¤- (within iron fence), one thousand dollars. For one assistant engineer in office of public buildings and grounds, one thousand eight hundred dollars. EXECUTIVE MANSION: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, thirty-six thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three rua, em. thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of gI·eenhouses, five thousand dollars. For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars. I
